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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

THE payment of $41, 600 out of the Montana
public treasury for prairie dog and squirrel
scalps, at ten cents head, indicates that the
thrifty farmers of that region have found the
raising of live stock to be most profitable
raIIrsriit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31
Ratfer Warned.

ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
Henry George promises, in the event OF his
election to distribute the Offices among those
who GET him the most votes This shows rather
a warned view of civil service reform, especially
when il comes from a candidate who is supposed
to stand for all that is true, beautisu, and good
in politics.
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pursuit.

THE Office of United States Fish Commits
sioner having been sensibly declined by two
Democrats, on the ground that they possessed
no qualifications for the Office, the President
has appointed Professor Goode, an officer of
the National Museum and scientist Of re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

IT is merely a superstitous feeling that leads
residents of Charleston to fear earthquake on
the anniversary of last years calamity; but the
jarrng Of doors. the soughing of the wind and
the slightest unwonted sound will startle them
until the day is past. They can hardly suppose
seriously that because it came once the earth
quake has adopted habit of making an annual
visit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

THE President will not stop in Ohio, but if
the '1oyap people of Ohio want to see him
they can come to indianapolis, and welcome.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31
Well Supplied.

Chicago Journal.
The Indiana Republicans certainly have good
material and plenty of IL for next years cam
paign-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

be seen that the Eastern farmer can buy q bet
ter home for less money. nearer the great mar
kets, than anywhere west of our State; that. in
fact Indiana is the best place for the comforta-
BILE liver who removes from the East to locate
in.
Turning to social statistics find that but
81 out of 90 coun ties make returns as to their
poor asylums. showing for them 2,364 inmates.
kept at an average cost of 16I cents day: 491
of these are under sixteen years of age, and 400
insane-two facts that ought not to exist
long as benevolent and intelligent people have
any influence.
By the economic statistics it appears that the
total of county expenses of 1885 was the big
sum OF So 933 056 and Increased in 1886 to &c.
COG, 751 Out of this grows the bulk of the
burden of taxation Hei to be the hero of future
statesmen who can devise a plan to cut down
these huge and growing expenses. The gross
amount of county Indebtedness is 1888. 8SL.
Sinking funds amount to ST.. ass. DAG.
Looking at the tables, numbered 10 to 15, In
elusive, designed to show administrator sher-
ifs auditors etc. transfers, school mortgages,
etc. other real estate mortgages, chattel mort
cages real estate transfers, mechanics liens,
and numbers of land and lot owners, one is
grevously disappointed at the meager returns
by negligent and worthless county officers who
ought to be dashed by penal statutes and prose-
cutions into the discharge of duty. The
facts that should be obtained by answers
to questions put to them would furnish invalua-
BILE data So with criminal statistics-the
prising neglect of the proper officials to make
returns concerning matters SO important should
be made to the people of the various counties.
These data go to make up important tables for
use in future legislation and in the manage
ment of public affairs intelligently.
The labors of the chief of the bureau have
been grievously retarded by this official delin
quency. Notwithstanding his report, even with
partial data on many subjects, is of great value.
The shabby little appropriation covering his
salary and his assistants. the postage account.
printing, stationery, books, papers, travelling
expenses gas and for Office repairs. all amounts
to four thousand dollars. With this meager
preparation he has done a work inestimable in
value to the State
Every business man should have this book,
and copies be put in circulation where knowl-
edge of our vast resources are comparatively nm.
known. Our State is, in a measure, undevel-
oped, yet the showing is that will make our
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

THE gratifying intelligence comes from the
East that the oyster crop this year will be bet
ter than for several years past. Neither the
drought nor tho heat affected the bivalves, and
while land crops were drying up oysters went
right along getting ready to be eaten. The
modest, quiet manner in which they attend to
business regardless of disturbing influences is
worthy of all praise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

SOUTHEAST Missouri is enjoying real estate
craze, growing out of the discovery that large
tract of land included in railroad grant many
years ago has reverted to the government and
is subject to pre-emption. The lands are among
the richest in the State and are all the more
valuable in the eyes of squatters because they
have just come into the market.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

THE city editor of the Louisville Commercial
bears the resoundiEe name of Oliver Cromwell.
This accounts for an occasional tendency in that
paper to charge on the ranks OF the enemies and
ride rouehshod over the PROSTATE forms of its
city contemporaries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

Telephone Calls
Business Office 23S Editorial Rooms PAP
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

The medicine men are called in and
the stoical little piece of humanity is
compelled TO undergo lot of pow
Wowing and mistreatment sufficient
to kill a healthy buck. Sometimes
the ''shaman'' or doctress of the tribe is
sent for, and the baby is subjected to a
treatment which consists of a steady
bowling for hours. This is sometimes
kept up for days and usually finishes the
Indian baby.
1t the pappoose gets safely through
his second year he gets few more lib
critics. He is big enough to toddle about
the camp, to chase the mischievous dogs
and fight mosquitoes for himself He is
allowed no clothes and is here, there and
everywhere. After awhile, if he is a
Wastonquah baby, he gets simple ira
peze swing and it will amuse him for
hours. When he is large enough he is
taken to the nearest swimming hole by
the bigger boys and almost drowned be-
fore he learns to take care of himself in
the water.
The Flat-head babies have hard time
of it. Soon after birth they are placed
in peculiar cradle, where boards are
bound to the head just over the brows,
f1attening the pliable skull in a most
grotesque manner, and rendering them
cripples for life Flat-head children are
never very bright, just the opposites of
the young Sioux, who grow up, in grease
and dirt, veritable boy athletes, and never
disheartened. Lewis and Clarke en-
countered the Flat heads during their
pioneer explorations in the Rocky Noun
tains, and their interesting chronicle
gives us our first authentic description
of the brutal custom to which the baby
is subjected.
The wild baby hears doleful lullaby.
An Indian song is, at all times, dolor-
Gus chant, and though the squaw's roper
toire musicale is not peopled with fine airs,
still some of her lullabies are quite pretty.
The baby in the buckskin cradle listens
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

parents from the bones of seal, rein
deer and walrus. If the baby be girl
she is provided with dolls, Just like
her more civilized little sisters; if a
boy, the toys are tiny sleds, spears, har-
poons and kyachs. With poorly made
toys of this nature the long Arctic nights
pass pleasantly to the Eskimo baby. His
cradle is the softest in the world, and
when Tired of play he creeps under the
family bearskin, and awakens for a break
fast of blubber, and another hour with
the toys.
The Polar lady, unlike Miss Kilman-
segg, knows no elaborate christening
He may consider himself lucky if he en-
joys any at all. Elisha Kent Kane has
preserved the names of number of Es-
kimo children, and we find among them
such as Myonk, Metek, Accomodah, Sip
su, and Marsumah. When the explorer
babe farewell to one of the Arctic settle
ments he was surrounded by scores of
Eskimo children from little toddlers up
to ten years of age, and heir sorrow over
his departure was deep and genuine.
One little girl named Aningnah cried
bitterly behind a tent curtain, wiping
her eyes on birdskin Kane was much
affected, and ever afterward kept in his
heart warm place for the wild babies
of the far North.
Further from the domain of. the ice
king, and within the limits of our own
country, we find other wild babies. The
old chevalier who wrote back to the
court of France saying that in the New
World be had seen cradles hanging from
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
FAMILY TROUBLES,

I'm going out little while,
And you must promise, Dollie,
To sit as quiet as mouse,
And not go romping FER the house
With pussy cat and Polly.
For pussys paws are very sharp,
And they are sure to scratch you;
Or if you get in Polly's reach
She'll give an awful! awful! screech,
And with her beak she'll catch you.
And don't go mussing up your things,
Or get your dress in creases;
Don't put your hands up to your hat,
Your bangs are loose-remember that
And they may come to pieces.
Don't pull the buttons off your shoes,
Or laugh when Polly chatters;
You mustn't mind her talk bit,
But only shut your eyes and sit
And think of other matters.
And promise, Dollie, not to pout,
1t makes you look so simple;
For every time you frown, you know,
1t makes the nasty wrinkles grow,
And spoils your pretty dimple.
You'd better go to sleep, for then
FL have no cause to scold you;
By-by, my dear-now try and see
How good you really can be
Remember what told you.
CHAD. Mccoy.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
FOREIGN CONTRACT LABOR.
Immigrants Who Enter Into Engagements
Abroad Not Allowed to Land.

A case arising under the alien labor law
has come before the Treasury Department.
The persons involved are two immigrants,
man and wife, who arrived at Philadelphia
On 10 pc
memorandum addressed by one employ
ment bureau in Liverpool to another in
Chicago, which certifies that the bearers will
receive twenty-five shillings per week from
the time of reaching destination, with pros
poets of additional Compensation. Theimmi-
grants said they had paid their own passage,
and that their compensation was contingent
upon their giving satisfaction. The collector
of customs at Philadelphia was in doubt as
to whether the contract labor law applied to
such case, and asked the department for
instructions.
Assistant Secretary Maynard informed the
collector by telegraph that the evidence sub
mitted in the case indicated that a contract
for these people to labor in this country was
made before their arrival, and consequently
they should not be allowed to land Wash
ia0foaa Press DisDutch.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
keeping Pace ON the Ocean.

The steamships Arizona, of the Guion Line,
and the Servia, of the Cunard Line which
left Queenstown about the same time, May
5, arrived in New York within an hour of
each other. During the entire voyage the
two kept constantly in sight of each other
By night each others lights could always be
seen. and at day either the spars or smoke
Of one vessel could be seen from the decks of
the other steamer. The passengers on the
Seryia were constantly watching the Arizona.
which they hoped to leave behind, while the
people on the rival boat regarded the seryia
with similar interest. Such close rivalry be
tween ocean grayhounds during a voyage has
never occurred before.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
CRAB WISE.

Men do not trust to arguments,
Alone, to prove what they would teach,
But must refer to precedent
To justify their briefest speech.
~
We speak of Blase So and So as being
wicked as the Devil" Why is it wrong?
On account of the synonym" (sin on him.
n. B.-Diagram and monkey-wrench, with
directions for working, furnished on applica-
ton.
##*
1t is stated that he who brings the most
of use into life lives the longest. If length
ofexistence depends upon this fact, it is al
together apropos to inquire how long has
Kelly (of motor fame) been dead.
TX
Mary Mapes Dodge asks ''why is it that
Pegasus, as soon as he feels a saddle on his
back, begins to gallop to the cemetery. Be-
cause entering on literary pursuit is often
grave affair.
#**
It may be said of the multiplicity of bones
in the shad, preventing satisfactory mastica-
ton, that this is the fishs revenge for being
eaten, and that herein the shad roes to the
occasion.
Xxx
We learn that the cabbage imported from
Germany grows as heavy as cannon ball.
Due doubtless to a morbid apprehension of
being naturalized into American crout
~
In the oil regions they get up boom in
real estate with comparative ease. They ac-
complish this every time they explode
cartridge in an oil we'll.
x*x
'To the admirers of fast horses, life in
many cases is little more than a span'
Merchant Zrdueter Yes and it teams
with interest
Scarcity of Salmon in New Jersey Waters.
Salmon, which used to be so plentiful in
New Jersey waters early III this century that
the farmers used them as common form of
food for the farm help, have been almost UNI
known in those waters Of the later years.
One, weighing twenty-four pounds caught
by Port Monmouth man the other day in
Raritan bay, is said to have been the first
caught there in twenty years.
A Particular Executioner.
The public executioner at Cologne has lust
died. He had his coffin built some years ago
and Kept it carefully in his rooms. In his
will he asked to be buried in his official
dress The Cologne executioner is the only
one in Germany who employs the guillotine.
In all other places the ak or the tWo-handed
sword is used.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

am worth a thousand dead men. came
to trade with the Teton Sioux and am
going to trade with them. Here is for q
crawl to my friends house" He again
drank of the cold water, and then, sup
ported on one sound leg and one arm, he
crawled through cactus, over stones and
through harsh, keen-edged grass to his
friends house, which he reached the next
morning at ten O'Clock. There he lay for
two months and was visited at long in
tervals by doctor from Bozeman. Then
he loafed for a month. Then, when the
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04


The Eskimo baby has no sooner opened
his eyes to the dullness of the Arctic life
than he is dumped naked into his mothers
hood, which is his ''pent-up Utica until
he is able to walk 1t thus becomes his
play ground and his cradle Wherever
the mother goes the baby is sure to be
He needs no clothing, for the jumper
hood, which rests on the mothers Shout
ders, is fur-lined and very warm. At
times the little prisoner is taken out and
allowed to roll over the dirty floor of the
'igloo,' when his peculiar antics are
watched with delight by the parents.
Life in the jumper lasts until the Es
kimo scion is ready for garments. Heis
then taken out and stuffed into a dress
generally Of fawn skin. The garment
has jacket and brooches in one, the back
part being open, and when the youngster
is thus incased a string closes up all
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
The Balance of Trade.

The Hon: VIM. F. Cody and the esteemed
John L. Sullivan are not to be mentioned in
the same breath with the divine Patti ana
Bernhard of course, bat there is some
consolation in the reflection that while
the, two, latter. are homeward bound
With ,,1 Well,fllled bags of Yankee shekels,
the wild West Show is making heavy
drafts on the pockets of the Britishers and
that Sullivan threatens soon to make to1,r
OF both England and France. Who knows
that the balance of trade may not VET he
in our favor ?-Nen Orleans Times Democ.o, 'o
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
IN LIGHTER VEIN.
PROUD OF HIS COLLEGE.

PROUD OF HIS COLLEGE.
Miss Benton Gust introduced)-I hear you
are at college, Mr.. Fitzmaurice?
Mr. Fitzmaurice-Yes, Miss Benton, I am
in my sophomore year.
HAS your college comprehensive curri-
culum?'
eyes, indeed, and thorough, too. There
isn't better football team in the State than
ours, and we can just leave them all behind
when it comes to rowing"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

trees was laughed at by the laced danes
of high degree. But the chevalier was
right. The Indian pappoose blinking in
his birch-bark cradle is one of the queer
est sights Imaginable. He is as securely
tied up as prisoner can well be. Some
times he is hung to a tree or stood up
against a rock, but wherever he is his
patience is something wonderful
AS a matter of course the Indian
cradle varies in minor details with each
tribe. 1t is not rocked, for it has no
rockers, nor does it boast of delicate
mosquito bar. Among some tribes of
the far West the board which forms the
back of the cradle is covered with we'll
dressed deerskin. 1t is sewed up in
front, and no part Of the baby is visible
but dark face with pair of the black
est eyes one wishes to see. Some of
these Indian cradles are very beautiful,
and exhibit the taste of the patient
mothers who make them. In some tender
grass is placed under the Youngsters
back, or dry moss from the limbs of the
swamp frs. The baby is dashed securely
to the board of the cradle, and he cannot
move until the mother sees fit to give
him an airing, which is generally done
once day.
1t is one of the most amusing of sights
to see a lot of Indian babies released
from their bark cradles They roll and
tumble on the camp grass like lot of
puppies, and some Of their antics are i'm
possible beyond the limits of wild baby
dom. They get out of their cradles on
pledges of good behavior, and the first
enc who breaks is clapped back and kept
there until he has paid for his breach Of
faith. In the fall of 1885 the writer Wis
tied Manitoba and saw the wild baby Eat
home The streets of Winnipeg swarm
at times with Indian mothers, who carry
their Graded offspring on their backs.
Sometimes the black eyes put on a mute
appeal for liberty, and at other times they
twinkle with merriment they would
hardly be expected to possess. [ have
seen Indian mothers turn their babies to
cold north wind for the purpose Of
hardening" them, but let baby get sick,
and the attention he receives comes from
a heart full of Devotion
Indian babies are subject to all the ills
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

at the Indian closely and recognized
his face as the CHASTITY mask he had last
seen moving through the thick grass
on the banks of the Yellowstone river
One day, while engaged in trading, the
wounded Indian told him that he was
the only one of a war party of fourteen
who returned to the Teton camp the pre-
vious' fall; and he told Liscomb of a
white devil, of fighting spirit whom
they had mistakenly attacked, and who
had killed all bis comrades
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
Sure Enough: Whv Not >

On the r whole, why would it not be better
and become one country? That Would Owe
reciprocity of trade and settle the fishesr;es
dispute and remove all the official harr;ars
which separate homogeneous people Under
our system each Canadian province erected si
into State would enjoy local self.eoyern e
ment, and ii the flag of the free would wave
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
QUIPS.
V H ~
Hard times-Marble clocks.

Hard times-Marble clocks.
Drilling is ''bore" to those members of
militia company who join just for the fun
of the thing
A contemporary is discussing the question,
How do BARRIERS learn their trade?" A good
many never do.
Itissingular that dogs wear pants in the
summer when it is warm, and discard them
in the winter when it is cold.
s'There is very little change in mems
trousers this spring" says a fashion oracle.
That is very true. The change has been lost
in betting on the wrong clubs.
A bell cast by Paul Revere now hangs in
the belfry of church at Plymouth, Mass.
1t is old enough to bea chestnut bell.
General Lew Wallace says that when he is
travelling he writes on the cars. Lew ought
to quit the habit, for hardly anything de-
faces nice new car like scribbling all overit
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

| have attempted to give briefly rev
notes concerning some of the wild babies
who continually people the world Ihey
are the ones who are not aired in the city
parks, but on the Polar ice fields and in
the boundless forests of the West. The
habitat of the wild baby is without limits.
He has kin all over the world, and while
he was not born with the proverblal sill
yer spoon between his gums, he would
not, probably, exchange his wild life for
the virtues of that article.
T. c. HARBAUGH.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
AN EFFECT OF REPRESSION.

''The summer is going to be very cool in
Russia" remarked Briggs.
"Why?" asked Quimby.
ION account of the Nihilists. All risings
are to be severely punished"
What has that to do with the summer
"Well, it will have its effect on the Their
mometer, for mercury will be afraid to rise,
too"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

again. Cap
tain Lyon,
one of the
N Ost b.
servant of
Arctic eX-
plOrers, be-
came much
intere st d
in Eskimo
babies a Il d
h a $ left
some inter
esting ac-
counts of
t h e III H e
: a vs., in
speaking Of
t he child
equipnlen t
that the cap
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

C i r C | e
S p G II d
much of
their time
in the ig-.
loos,o or
ice-hous-
es. This
is owing,
to the Sc
verify of
t he eli.
m a t e
While in
d o 0 r S
they am
use tllen-I
S e | V { S
with toys |
fashioned
by their
indulgenti
b u t not |
very in-'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
Al Watchful Employer.

Al Young farmer, near Covington, Ga,
hires q negro to pillow, and IN order to see
THAT no time is fooled away, he rides the
mule 90 as to face the ploWman, carrying an
nm rella over his own head and using a big
fan in order to keep cool.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

IS something very fantastic The skin
of fawn's head is favorite material
in the composition, and is often seen
with the ears perfect, the nose and holes
for the eyes lying along the rrown of
the wearers head, which in consequence
looks like that of an animal"
The wild hahies " no in b ah hit tho Polar
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
Heavy Locomotives

The heaviest locomotive in the world
weighs ". leg, 600 pounds, and is on the Cana
dian Pacific The next heaviest is the South
ern ia I4 goo pounds; the third weighs
Iap;t4vpouaads, ana y onthe Northern Pacific
ana Brazil owns the fourth, weighing ia, 90
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

attentively to the song which prophesies
all manner of greatness for him when he
is grown. He is to be strong and mighty,
swift to overtake the deer and terrible to
the foe. His arms. are to overcome the
grizzly and protect his mother in her old
age. It is a song Of this kind that sends
the Indian baby to the Laildof Nod. The
cradle ~ laid tenderly on the ground, and
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04
SHE HAS SEVERAL BROTHERS.

She-They call that whistling buoy,
believe.
He-Yes, that is its name
She-Well, the word "whistling' is en-
tirely supertiuous, for there never was a boy
that wouldn't whistle.